Transparency International, the Berlin based organisation, has released its annual computation of corruption across the world. Finland and New Zealand came in equal first, the United Kingdom came in 12th, …
Meanwhile, at the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka, also known as Murthy Angadi, proof, as if any further proof were required, that the only lesson that sowcar–ru and his shishyas …
Jumping up and down a bed, two-year-old Lily shows Miss Teen USA South Carolina thoughtfully said: some people do have them: maps.
In The Insider, Dustin Hoffman Al Pacino plays the role of Lowell Bergman, the CBS investigative journalist who does an expose of the tobacco industry. When a source scoffs at …
The monsoon of moolah that has rained on members of the Indian cricket team that won the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa—cash awards of Rs 80 lakh each for …
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the captain of the Indian team which won the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa, has attributed the team’s victory to the presence of so many …
Nothing exceeds like success. BELLUR RAMAKRISHNA captures the after-effects of the Great Indian Cricket Turnaround in South Africa. *** ROHITH K.G. in Dubai writes: “The credit for the World Cup …
A group of social activists have issued the following statement criticising the Delhi High Court for sentencing four journalists of Mid-Day for contempt of court in a case involving the …
Why are the Left parties led by Prakash Karat going for the jugular on the nuclear deal and and risking an early election? Prof. Abhirup Sarkar of the Indian Statistical …
The only thing certain in life, other than its inevitable end, is taxes. And, if you are an Indian, the cesses, duties, fees, interest, penalties, surcharges, and anything else that …
The appointment of Rahul Gandhi as a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) is the first clear indication that an electoral breeze may blow through the country …
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Thiru Muthuvel Karunanidhi is, if nothing else, a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma within a dhoti. A pal of the BJP not long …
Although the Chamalapura Project controversy has been raging for over four months now, few know where it is, geographically speaking, and how close it is to human habitats, the Bandipur …
An India versus Pakistan match is a sight to behold even in ordinary circumstances. As old rivalries open up, as the “war minus the shooting” begins, the tension is palpable …
Four journalists of the Delhi newspaper Mid-Day have been ordered to be jailed for “contempt of court” following the publication of a cartoon and stories questioning the actions and motivations …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: As I was stepping into Saravana Bhavan in T. Nagar for breakfast, I saw the Ace Political Expert (APE), Kho Kumaraswamy, sitting alone in a corner, striking …
G.N. MOHAN forwards a picture shot somewhere between Agumbe and Kundapur by AJIT ASHUTOSH KALLE. Why do we have such a silly headline for such a beautiful picture? Because of …
Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old top computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, has been diagnosed with 10 tumours in his liver and has just a few months of good …
Fundamentalists, be they Muslim, Christian or Hindu, are conjoined triplets, joined at the hip and sharing the same rectal orifice which, for the want of a better word, has come …
P. Sainath, the Magsaysay Award winning journalist, made the very obvious point recently in an interview on wisdom as it is perceived by the Indian media—how journalists, who are supposed …
Going purely by the Gregorian calendar, which may or may not be the one they use in the Deve Gowda household, H.D. Kumaraswamy is in the last fortnight of his …
Sick and tired of the courts being open to all manner of people to file all manner of frivolous cases, an American senator has sued—wait for it—God. Ernie Chambers of …
Book launches in Kannada have acquired a momentum all their own, and this invitation, for the release of Shalabhanjike by K.N. Ganeshaiah and Janaki Col 2 by Janaki is proof. …
Has the creation of a united Karnataka damaged the multi-lingual character of the Kannada sensibility? Not so, writes M.S. Prabhakara, the Kannadiga who was The Hindu‘s Guwahati correspondent before being …
The carrot dangling at the bottom of the Indo-US nuclear deal is nuclear power. Signing the deal, say its proponents, will give India unbridled access to the latest in civilian …